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Breach exposes H&R Block customers' tax customers  16 February 2000 
Source: News.com - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
This news.com article writes, "H&R Block's online tax filing service exposed some customers' sensitive financial records to other customers last weekend, prompting the company to shut down the system yesterday afternoon, CNET News.com has learned." . . .

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Distributed Denial of Service  15 February 2000 
Source: Network Magazine - Rik Farrow - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
This is a well written and informative article on the DDoS attack. It is worth reading. Rik Farrow writes... "Network-based denial of service attacks became popular after the SYN floods that took down Web servers in 1996. Winnuke, . . .

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Few have Downloaded FBI's Attack Detection Tools.  15 February 2000 
Source: FCW.com - Bob Brewin - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
Bob Brewin writes .... "The National Infrastructure Protection Center anticipated the kind of massive denial-of-service attacks that crippled a number of commercial electronic commerce sites last week and offered a free software tool to help detect the software "demons or . . .

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February version of SAFER  14 February 2000 
Source: Siamrelay - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
The latest edition of SAFER (Security Alert for Enterprise Resources) is now available. Although it's not Linux-specific, it has some great information in there about the month's security events. . . .

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EU Moves on DoS Attacks  12 February 2000 
Source: Computer Currents - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
The European Union (EU) said that it is working closely with law enforcement and cybercrime operations in its various member countries, as well as collaborating with CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) officials in the US. . . .

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HNN Denial of Service Overview  12 February 2000 
Source: Hacker News Network - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
This Hacker News Network section provides several original articles discussing the recent denial of service attacks and how they crippled many of the largest Internet sites. . . .

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Credit Cards Stolen From RealNames?  11 February 2000 
Source: Wired.com - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
"Internet search tool company RealNames has become the latest site to be cracked by Internet vandals -- only this time tens of thousands of customer credit cards and passwords may have been stolen." . . .

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Japan Sites Hacked only with IDs, and Passwords  11 February 2000 
Source: Yomiuri.co.jp - Posted by: Benjamin D. Thomas - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
Once again, using only passwords prove to be a insecure method of protection ... "The hackers behind a recent series of invasions of government-run Web sites may have gained access to the sites by stealing the user names and passwords . . .

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Locking up Linux  08 February 2000 
Source: PC Week -- Ann Chen - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
Anne Chen writes ... "Last summer, Linux backers at several companies had some explaining to do after hundreds of DNS servers running Version 5 of Red Hat Inc.'s Red Hat Linux operating system were compromised by hackers launching buffer overflow . . .

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Cross Site Scripting Creates Huge Web Security Hole  04 February 2000 
Source: Computer Currents - Posted by LinuxSecurity.com Team   
There is a significant security hole which cuts across all web browsers on all platforms, Cross Site Scripting (CSS). At its core CSS is about injecting malicous code (such as Javascript) into dynamically generated web pages. A simple . . .

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